General Educational Development

Through out most people 's primary American education, writing has become an extremely begrudging task. I can personally attest to that felling, teachers hold a lot of power, they can either make it easy for students to fall in love with a subject, or ruin it for them forever. In my writing experience I have had my fair share of teachers doing the latter. From writing dozens "mementos" for my senior memory book, to writing dry papers for standardized state tests year after year, it 's easy to…

"Believing we can improve schooling with more tests is like believing you can make yourself grow taller by measuring your height" (Students Against Testing). All students that attend a public school in the United States are required to take standardized tests starting in third grade. Then those students have to take at least two a year until they enter high school, and once in high school students have to continue taking the same type of tests along with other standardized tests such as AP tests…

Late Entry 11/14/2015, CM did a visual to locate client. Client was located and CM requested for the client to come to the social service office. CM completed Initial ILP Review. Client appeared her stated age. She was dressed in black sweat pants and T-shirt. Her hair was disarray. In the meeting she appears to be quiet, cooperative and friendly. She made eye contact appropriately. Client described her mood, “aggravated and angry.” Her affect was angry. CM inquires how client came to the…

Throughout the memoir, A Question of Freedom, Dwayne Betts had faced a lot of obstacles and limited choices/decisions behind bars in a Fairfax County Jail in Virginia. There are many reasons why others define Betts as a “felon,” but he describes himself as a “success,” Betts chose himself as a “learner,”. Others define me as “motivated” and others define Betts between “failure to success”. In addition, failure is a negative side to face in life and becoming successful is a positive side to face…

subjected to for the sake of college admissions. The two most prominent tests, the ACT and the SAT, are standardized tests required by virtually all colleges. If every high school student is taking the same test, regardless of ethnic background, educational background, family income, or prior experience, you may begin to question the fairness of standardized testing at all. Standardized tests are unfair and no indicator of how a…

High school, it can be a place where bright young minds blossom and where happiness and memories are shared but behind this façade high school isn’t exactly a bed of roses. Students are constantly preparing for standardized testing and once the test comes around more than half the students fail. Is an irrelevant test really a way to get students to move forward in their lives? Leon Botstein, President of Bard College believes that high school should be taken out in all its entirety. Botstein…

Persuasive Essay If you grew up and went to school in the United States, then you are most likely familiar with the standardized tests issued every year. These tests were formed to examine whether or not a student has learned enough materials and is ready to move on to the next grade-level. These tests vary in the amount of time and format, depending on the disciplines. Krishna Narra, the author of the article, “Moving beyond standardized tests,” states that some of the consequences of the…

Philosophy 2400 Zhiyuan Li Is the general will always right? In November 2014, China released a draft amendment to its Criminal Law, including exempting nine crimes from the death penalty. However, a considerable number of people almost immediately expressed their strong disagreement on lightening punishment for those crimes and asked for the most severe punishment instead. If we regard reducing death penalty crimes as the general will, or what is best for the whole society, the opponents might…

There is no doubt that there exist institutional and individual bias in promotion board process.” In order to have an increase in blacks as general officers, would be to (1) make the promotion board more transparent, allowing the members to understand the promotion criteria in which the board members base their selection on. (2) remove any indication of the officers assign branch/job and (3)…

for them to use. The organization also served children through their educational…